Canadian artist Christopher Friesen is a painter, community advocate and an educator. Friesen has work in international public, private and corporate collections. His teaching focuses on painting, drawing and different modes of cultural discourse ranging from specific formal painting concerns to community engagement through mural projects.
Friesen lives and has his studio in Langley, British Columbia. His work has been shown extensively throughout Western Canada in public and commercial galleries. His sophisticated landscapes traverse the thinly veiled space between abstraction and realism, drawing viewers into the gap where experience becomes art.
There is something profoundly absorbing in Friesen’s works, which are painted from unexpected vantage points. The artist draws in the eye through an impossibly intriguing invitation to look beyond the surface of both the painting itself and the place from which we view art and nature.